Lewis Henry WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

http://www.jcwilton.com// (no longer exists)

In Memory of

LEWIS WILTON

Private
16143
2nd Bn., Royal Irish Regiment
who died on
Thursday, 21st March 1918. Age 29.

Additional Information: Son of Ellen Augusta Wiltons of Kelly Park, St.
Mabyn, Cornwall, and the late Charles Henry Wilton.


Commemorative Information

Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 30 and 31
Location:


Pozieres is a village some 6 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert.
The Memorial encloses Pozieres British Cemetery which is a little
south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from
Albert to Pozieres. On the road frontage is an open arcade terminated by
small buildings and broken in the middle by the entrance and gates. Along
the sides and the back, stone tablets are fixed in the stone rubble walls
bearing the names of the dead grouped under their Regiments. It should be
added that, although the memorial
stands in a cemetery of largely Australian graves, it does not bear any
Australian names. The Australian soldiers who fell in France and whose
graves are not known are commemorated on the National Memorial at
Villers-Bretonneux.

Historical Information:

The Memorial relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when
the Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former
Somme battlefields, and to the succeeding period of four months during
which there was built up, behind the new front, of the army, which on the
8 August 1918 began the Advance to Victory. The Memorial commemorates
over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African
Forces who have no known grave and who fell in France during the Fifth
Army area retreat on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918. The Corps
and Regiments most largely represented are The Rifle Brigade with over
600 names, The Durham Light Infantry with approximately 600 names, the
Machine Gun Corps with over 500, The Manchester Regiment with
approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery with over
400 names.

1891 census
RG12/1811 F62 P8
Dranes, St Neot, Cornwall
Charles H Wilton, Head, M, 25, Agricultural Laborer, Cornwall St Mabyn
Ellen A do, Wife, M, 26, , Cornwall St Neot
Agnes do, Daur, , 6, , Cornwall Liskeard
Rosaline E do, Daur, , 4, , Cornwall St Neot
Lewis H do, Son, , 2, , Cornwall St Neot
William J do, Son, , 3mths, , Cornwall St Neot
-------
Carrey Wilton, Head, M, 25, , Cornwall Liskeard
Cecil W do, Son, , 5, , Cornwall St Cleer
Otho J do, Son, , 4, , Cornwall St Cleer
Wadham G do, Son, , 2, , Cornwall St Cleer
Sidney do, Son, , 1, , Cornwall St Cleer